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Over 60 outstanding scientists from all over the globe have joined the Royal Society as Fellows and Foreign Members. The distinguished group of scientists consists of 52 Fellows, 10 Foreign Members and one Honorary Fellow and were all selected for their exceptional contributions to science.
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Its Foreign Members are drawn from the rest of the world.
The Society’s fundamental purpose is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
Cambridge experts elected fellows of Royal Society
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Usha Goswami
Sadaf Farooqi, Usha Goswami among 60 outstanding scientists chosen for honour.
Two experts based at the University of Cambridge – Sadaf Farooqi and Usha Goswami – are among 60 outstanding scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence with origins in the 17th century.
Sadaf Farooqi, professor of metabolism and medicine, and Usha Goswami, professor of cognitive developmental neuroscience, join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Dorothy Hodgkin who enriched the society with their expertise.
Farooqi is known for her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis and their disruption in obesity. She discovered that the leptin-melanocortin system regulates appetite and weight in people and that genetic mutations affecting